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Guiding Professional Learning Communities
Inspiration, Challenge, Surprise, and Meaning

Foreword by Roland S. Barth

May 2012 | 240 pages | Corwin
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This research-based sequel to Leading Professional Learning Communities focuses on the practical process of implementing, improving, and sustaining PLCs. Appropriate for groups at all stages of PLC development, this field book helps educators improve PLC operations by facilitating individual and group development and growth. The authors provide learning opportunities that generate conversations about adult learning and contribute to supportive conditions that strengthen teacher quality and raise student outcomes.
 
Foreword by Roland S. Barth
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Authors
 
Part I. Introduction: Things You Need to Know Before You Use This Book
 
Part II. Words to the Wise: Before You Begin
 
Part III. Learning Opportunities: Tools, Tasks, Deep Thinking, and a Wee Bit of Trivia
 
Learning Opportunity 0.1: A Crisp Rationale for PLCs
Learning Opportunity 0.2: Benefits to Staff and to Students: A Flamingo Dialogue

 
Learning Opportunity 0.3: Research-Based Components of a PLC: A Jigsaw

 
 
Component 1: Shared Beliefs, Values, and Vision
Overview and Current Thinking

 
Learning Opportunity 1.1: My Personal Learning Compass

 
Learning Opportunity 1.2: Creating a Culture of Academic Optimism

 
Learning Opportunity 1.3: Prioritized Abandonment

 
Learning Opportunity 1.4: Discovering Our Core Values

 
 
Component 2: Shared and Supportive Leadership
Overview and Current Thinking

 
Learning Opportunity 2.1: Friendly Feedback for the Principal

 
Learning Opportunity 2.2: A Guide for Making Decisions

 
Learning Opportunity 2.3: Learning Conversations

 
Learning Opportunity 2.4: Planting the PLC in a Strong Culture

 
Learning Opportunity 2.5: Positive Deviance

 
Learning Opportunity 2.6: Distributed Leadership

 
 
Component 3: Structural Conditions
Overview and Current Thinking

 
Learning Opportunity 3.1: Time and Other Essential Ingredients

 
Learning Opportunity 3.2: Assessing the Effectiveness of PLC Meetings

 
Learning Opportunity 3.3: Assessment for PLC Development

 
Learning Opportunity 3.4: The Learning Community’s WORK

 
Learning Opportunity 3.5: Identifying a PLC Learning Goal

 
Learning Opportunity 3.6: Traffic Light Indicator

 
 
Component 4: Relational Conditions
Overview and Current Thinking

 
Learning Opportunity 4.1: The Importance of Trust in the PLC

 
Learning Opportunity 4.2: Group Development

 
Learning Opportunity 4.3: Mapping Collaborative Interactions

 
Learning Opportunity 4.4: Relational Conditions

 
Learning Opportunity 4.5: Building Consensus

 
Learning Opportunity 4.6: Defusing Conflict in a PLC

 
 
Component 5: Intentional Collective Learning and Its Application
Overview and Current Thinking

 
Learning Opportunity 5.1: Leadership and the Enemies of Learning

 
Learning Opportunity 5.2: Twelve Principles for Effective Adult Learning

 
Learning Opportunity 5.3: The PLC Action Plan

 
Learning Opportunity 5.4: Listening Together in the PLC

 
Learning Opportunity 5.5: Using the Stages of Concern to Connect Professional Learning to the Classroom

 
Learning Opportunity 5.6: Using the Levels of Use (LoU) to Connect Professional Learning to the Classroom

 
Learning Opportunity 5.7: PLC Growth Development Profile

 
 
Component 6: Sharing Personal Practice
Overview and Current Thinking

 
Learning Opportunity 6.1: “Foursight” for Learning: Four Focus Areas to Consider in Monitoring for Student Learning

 
Learning Opportunity 6.2: Four Conversations

 
Learning Opportunity 6.3: Coaching: Transferring Adult Learning to the Classroom or What’s Learned Here Leaves Here

 
Learning Opportunity 6.4: Reflection Protocols

 
Learning Opportunity 6.5: Video Sharing Protocol

 
 
Part IV. Bringing Closure
 
Resource A
 
References
 
Index

Comprehensive and met the goals of the course.

Dr Amy Burkman
School Of Education, University of Texas - Permian Basin
September 8, 2011
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